State Auditor Crit Luallen released the audit of the 2008 financial statement of the Grant County Sheriff, Charles Dills. State law requires the auditor to annually audit the accounts of each county sheriff. In compliance with this law, the auditor issues two sheriff’s reports each year: one reporting on the audit of the sheriff’s tax account and the other reporting on the audit of the fee account used to operate the office.

Grant County Sheriff;s Office Deputy Brian Maines investigated an accident at 4:45 p.m. May 12 on North Main Street in Crittenden. The drivers involved were Logan P. Countryman, 18, of Sardinia, Ohio driving a 1998 Saturn and Donald G.